@MiaMarkTwo In contrast my deprived, multi-cultural inner-city part of #Bristol voted overwhelmingly to remain.

Ultimately I blame Cameron. He, like previous Tory leaders since the 1960s, refused to tackle the party's #racism and #xenophobia.

He took an internal party problem and turned it into the country's biggest foreign policy disaster since the 1956 Suez crisis.

...we'd be remiss not to acknowledge the #Comedy reflex is almost irresistable, so we can hear that "well FFS , if a little #Xenophobia was ever justified actual ET presence might be a good time..."

Real caution is justified. The worry is that said Xenophobia becomes part of policymaking. We've never actually needed formal policy or legislation dealing with the subject matter. Those first bits will set the tone for whatever follows. The current state of our governance is not encouraging